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The King’s Slaughterer—or, The Royal Way of Nourishing Life
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 70, Number 1, January 2020
- pp. 155-173
- 10.1353/pew.2020.0009
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Abstract
Abstract:
This essay suggests an alternative reading of the “Cook Ding” story in the Zhuangzi as a critique of political ritual in early China and of the violent domestication regime it represents. The story satirically reverses the ritual invisibilization of a slaughter of humans and beasts. It parodies a murderous “royal way of life” by having a butcher perform a ritual slaughter in front of a ruler.
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